Again, again - Blair, in testifying before British witch hunt re Iraq war and how the hell did you get us into this mess you bad bad man etc etc say you're sorry, beg our forgiveness etc etc - in testimony Blair states that Iran presents a similar situation and the West should remain open to a military intervention - and of course everybody goes nuts crying you loathsome, war mongering bastard! Just how vile a beast are you that you can even think such a thing?!
Ok, I'm gonna say this just one more time [a silly rhetorical invocation since no one is reading this]: there are scenarios, chains of events that can unfold if you use a military strike to interdict Iran's nuclear ambitions that are bad; likewise, there are scenarios, chains of events that can unfold if you choose not to use a military strike to interdict Iran's nuclear ambitions that are bad. There's a lot of bad here no matter which way you look - an objective and rational observer must conclude that if you close your mind to the military option you're allowing fear or an ideological predetermination to cloud your judgment and that could come back to haunt just as surely as being too open to the visceral satisfaction of simply pulling the trigger.
In short, there is no obviously right answer when it comes to Iran yet people all across the political spectrum [although predominantly on the left] are consistently declaiming as if there is. To me, that spells trouble. If that's the point Blair was trying to make I entirely agree with him.
